He was probably received by Michael Choniates, the archbishop who had defended Athens against the tyrant Leo Sgurus, (Nicetas urbs capta, p. 805, ed.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Stratsburg, Nuremberg, Ulm, Constance, Retlingen, Windsheim, Memmingen, Lindow, Kempten, Hailbron, Isny, Weissemburg, Nortlingen, S. Gal, joined against the decree of the diet protestation, which was put into writing, and published the 19th of April, 1529.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

In what cases a mistake affecting motives is a ground for avoidance, does not concern this discussion, because the subject now under consideration is when a contract is made, and the question of avoiding or rescinding it presupposes that it has been made.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Surely not upon chairs.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

According to its explanation, there is, strictly speaking, neither unselfish conduct, nor a wholly disinterested point of view.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Ambrose Nicholas, salter, mayor 1576, founded twelve alms houses in Monke’s well street, near unto Creple’s gate, wherein he placed twelve poor people, having each of them seven pence the week, and once every year five sacks of coals, and one quarter of a hundred faggots, all of his gift for ever.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

But there was this difficulty; the pictures of the comet were on a very small scale, and taken with a small lens; a much larger lens was required for the scheme now under contemplation, and when there are four separate lenses to be made, each with two surfaces to polish, and each requiring a perfectly sound clear piece of glass, it will be obvious that the difficulties of making a large compound lens of this kind are much
— from Astronomical Discovery by H. H. (Herbert Hall) Turner

Although for months he had been expecting just such news Ulick couldn't repress a long whistle; then he gave her a bear-hug.
— from Painted Veils by James Huneker

The house of Austria, they were to maintain, had come into the possession of the seventeen Netherlands upon certain express conditions, and with the understanding that its possession was to cease with the first condition broken.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 31: 1580-82 by John Lothrop Motley

Commodore (T) Reginald Y. Tyrwhitt, C.B., in Arethusa, Aurora, Capt. Wilmot S. Nicholson; Undaunted, Capt. Francis G. St. John, M.V.O.; Arethusa and the destroyer flotillas were ahead.
— from New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various

Surely not 'under compulsion.'
— from Papers from Overlook-House by Frederic W. Beasley

Were people in general not willing accomplices, there would be no sweating system, no unfair competition.
— from Consumers and Wage-Earners: The Ethics of Buying Cheap by J. Elliot (John Elliot) Ross